Goldin’s Pop Culture Elite auction closes September 9, 2026, and its category list reads like a snapshot of exactly what collectors are chasing right now: comics, Disney memorabilia, Star Wars pieces, sealed video games and graded trading cards, all in one sale.

Key Points

• The auction runs through September 9, 2026, with bidding and registration open at goldin.co, according to the auction house’s own listing.
• Categories span comic books, Disney memorabilia, Star Wars collectibles, video games, and trading cards, with a heavy share of items independently graded by PSA and CGC, per Goldin’s auction description covered by AuctionReport.
• Goldin says it has brokered more than $1.5 billion in collectibles sales to date, a scale that puts this sale in the same company as the house’s headline-grabbing results, including a $7.25 million sale of a Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card, AuctionReport reports.
• The house is actively soliciting consignments for future sales alongside this one, a sign of how much inventory is currently moving through the graded-collectibles market.

What’s notable about a sale like this isn’t any single lot — it’s the mix. A decade ago, “pop culture auction” mostly meant sports memorabilia with the occasional comic book thrown in as a curiosity. Now a single Elite sale routinely spans sealed retro video games sitting next to Star Wars props and Disney animation cels, treated with the same grading rigor and bidding intensity that used to be reserved for trading cards and vintage baseballs. That shift tracks with a broader change in how collectors think about value: a mint-condition sealed NES cartridge or an original piece of Disney production art isn’t a curiosity anymore, it’s an asset class with its own comps and price history.

The graded-card infrastructure — PSA and CGC slabs, population reports, third-party authentication — is really what made this possible. Once buyers could trust a grade on a comic book or a video game box the same way they’d trust one on a trading card, those categories could command real auction-house money instead of getting quietly flipped in private sales and online forums.

For anyone sitting on a sealed childhood video game or a set of untouched trading cards, sales like Goldin’s Elite auction are the clearest evidence yet that the collectibles market has room for a lot more than cards and coins.

Video games in particular have benefited from this shift. Dedicated grading services now assess factory-sealed cartridges the same way PSA assesses a rookie card, assigning condition scores that let a decades-old NES or Sega Genesis title trade hands with the same price transparency as a graded comic — a level of structure that simply didn’t exist when most of these games were still sitting on store shelves.